Living in the USA

We have been in America now for nearly two months. We have been having a great time both here at training and in all our travels before hand. We are living in Greenwood, Indiana. It's a little further south of the city of Indianapolis. We took our children in the city to the Children's museum, that was our first time in the city. The second time was during training. We had an assignment. We were given maps and instruction and money enough to get a bus into the city, but not to return. Our mission was to spend the day in prayer and helping others and telling others about Jesus. It was an amazing day. We went out in groups of 3. I was with Jenny another mum my age and Brian a 26 year old from Texas. We were a motley crew; me from Australia, Jenny from Mississipi two mum's in their 30's and then Brian. But we were a good team. I wanted to ask people for money but Brian thought we should just pray and ask God to provide. So that's what we did.

We were able to talk to many different people, Muslim, Buddist, homeless, middle class it was such an interesting time and having the freedom to just talk to people for the day was amazing. Quite often I watch people and think it would be good to talk to them but I'm always with my family busy doing things, going somewhere. I find it very easy to talk to people, but hard to start talking about Jesus. Brian was just going up to people and saying, "Hey, have you seen Jesus in this park lately?"

It got to the time we were meant to go home and we didn't have the money to get back on the bus. We started heading towards the bus stop and someone called out to us who we'd just been talking to. I thought, "could this be who is going to give us our money?" She called us over and said, "Hey would you guys have some money to give us to get on the bus?" I felt so bad. I pathetically said, "We don't have money either so I'm sorry, but we'll pray for you." Then we passed another couple who we had been talking to earlier in the day and we found out that they missed their lunch at the shelter because they were talking to us. We also had had no lunch as we were fasting, but I felt so bad because I really didn't know what it was like to go hungry often.

We got to the bus stop and there was Sergii with his team. They looked at us and said, "Get in" We said, "What?" "Get in we have the money" Well I thought they must of kept it from the beginning because they'd taken out wallets from us and we had to go with nothing. But God had provided them with money through a man they had been talking to and it was more than what they needed. We all got on the bus and heard their story and then we stopped at the next bus stop and there was another team just sitting there. The last team had made friends with some other believers and got a lift back to Greenwood. Greenwood is about a half hour drive out of Indianapolis (on the bus)

It was an amazing day and God's love for us was so evident and his faithfulness to us is so good. We are so blessed.